Akley had a reasonable ML career actually...DavidGee24 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 11:48 pmNone of those guys even come remotely close to Vogie and Stanton. Stanton went from being the Mariners' best power hitter in 1977 to being the second worst major league player on the planet in 1978 after fellow Mariner Dan Meyer (who put up the worst WAR ever for a Mariner position player). Vogie performed at an all-star level for half of season and then suddenly became an even worse hitter than most pitchers.Juliooooo wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 2:15 pmYou can go pick out so many players that have encouraging 20 game stretches, or even seasons. From recent memory of Mariners players only (not all with the Mariners at the time) Michael Saunders, Chris Tayler, Brad Miller, Dustin Ackley, Mike Zunino... I'm sure you can come up with a dozen more in the last 5-10 years with just Mariners names alone. Maybe it's not to the level of Vogey, but you have to do it over a long stretch of time.
Ackley had a good rookie year and then regressed into a mediocre player but nowhere close to as bad as Stanton and Vogie. Zunino didn't have a good start to his Mariner career, he just had one great month in the middle of it so he doesn't fit in there. Taylor had a nice start in his first cup of coffee, was lousy in his second but ended up being a pretty good player so he doesn't fit in either. I have no idea why you listed Saunders and Miller.
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this is draft years 2000-2010, 55 players were picked 1-5, 48 reached the majors, they averaged 12.8 WAR, Dustin had 7.7 WAR, falls more in the 10-15 range of draft picks, but that was a pretty bad draft class in general....
https://community.fangraphs.com/success ... s-by-slot/Draft Year 2000-2010
Overall Pick Average bWAR Number to Reach Majors Number Still in Minors
1-5 12.8 48 7
6-10 9.5 41 14
11-15 8.7 45 10
16-20 4.9 43 12
21-25 6.5 36 19
26-30 4.5 32 23